Dr Forbes knows who JTR is (apparently)

[chudmuskett]

Hi, found this link for the New York Times dated September 1, 1895

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9904E4DE113DE433A25752C0A96F9C94649ED7CF

Let me know if its been posted before, thank you.

and heres another gem (NYT March 20, 1910):

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C02E2DA1430E233A25753C2A9659C946196D6CF

[Chris]

Let me know if its been posted before, thank you.

Actually, it is already in the "Press Reports" section:

http://www.casebook.org/press_reports/new_york_times/nyt950901.html

But thanks for posting it. It's better to see these things several times than not at all ...

[chudmuskett]

Thank you, any tips on what to be looking for?

[Chris]

Thank you, any tips on what to be looking for?

I think we're spoiled for choice these days in terms of online resources - particularly if you're prepared to spend a modest amount of money.

One free resource that I suspect has more to offer, at least in terms of useful background information, is the LSE's Charles Booth Online Archive, particularly the police notebooks:

http://booth.lse.ac.uk/

[DaveMc]

I'm always ready to pooh-pooh news articles since they're given to sensationalizing.

I started to curl my nose at the blood stained moccasins since that's certainly something to be noticed by the witnesses, but then there was the Polly Nichols witness Sarah Colwell.

"She told the press that at the time the murder of Mary Ann Nichols was allegedly committed, she heard a woman running along Brady Street shouting "murder, police!". Mrs. Colwell stated that she could only hear the one set of footsteps, despite being sure that the woman was running away from someone."

Moccasins would fit.

I'm glad you brought this one up even if it is archived on Casebook.
I hadn't seen it until now.

Produce those Moccasins and exhume Polly for DNA and we have a case?
I can't be the first one to have that thought.